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Biotechnology in the petroleum industry: An overview
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An overview on MEOR and biorefining relevant to the petroleum industry and highlights challenges that need to be overcome to become commercially successful is provided in this paper, where the emerging field of crude oil refining and associated industrial processes such as biodesulfurization, biodemetallation, biodenitrogenation and biotransformation are also covered.About:
This article is published in International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation.The article was published on 2014-01-01. It has received 183 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Oil refinery & Microbial enhanced oil recovery.read more
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Applications of Biosurfactants in the Petroleum Industry and the Remediation of Oil Spills
Rita de Cássia Freire Soares da Silva,Darne Germano de Almeida,Raquel D. Rufino,Juliana M. Luna,Valdemir Alexandre dos Santos,Leonie Asfora Sarubbo +5 more
TL;DR: The present review describes the potential applications of biosurfactants in the oil industry and the remediation of environmental pollution caused by oil spills.
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Biosurfactants: Promising Molecules for Petroleum Biotechnology Advances.
Darne Germano de Almeida,Rita de Cássia Freire Soares da Silva,Juliana M. Luna,Raquel D. Rufino,Valdemir Alexandre dos Santos,Ibrahim M. Banat,Leonie Asfora Sarubbo,Leonie Asfora Sarubbo +7 more
TL;DR: Biosurfactants are going to have a significant role in many future applications in the oil industries and in this review, recent important relevant applications, patents disclosures and potential future applications for biosurfactant in petroleum and related industries are highlighted.
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Biosurfactants: Production and potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)
TL;DR: This review highlights the biosurfactant production and economics, general protocols for applications from lab-to-field scale, different successful trials along with pros and cons of both in-situ and ex-sito BS-MEOR applications.
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Comprehensive review on toxicity of persistent organic pollutants from petroleum refinery waste and their degradation by microorganisms.
TL;DR: The main aim of this review is to provide contemporary information on variety of aromatic hydrocarbons present in crude oil, exposure routes and their adverse effects on humans.
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Synergistic ex-situ biodegradation of crude oil by halotolerant bacterial consortium of indigenous strains isolated from on shore sites of Gujarat, India
TL;DR: In this article, a scale up study of crude oil degradation (K#X, 3% v/v) by HUBC using Bushnell-Hass medium was performed under optimized growth conditions up to 75 days.
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Microbial production of surfactants and their commercial potential.
JD Desai,Ibrahim M. Banat +1 more
TL;DR: Biosurfactants are more effective, selective, environmentally friendly, and stable than many synthetic surfactants, and the most promising applications are cleaning of oil-contaminated tankers, oil spill management, transportation of heavy crude oil, enhanced oil recovery, recovery of crude oil from sludge, and bioremediation of sites contaminated with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and other pollutants.
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Potential commercial applications of microbial surfactants.
TL;DR: Biosurfactants are amphiphilic compounds of microbial origin with considerable potential in commercial applications within various industries and have advantages over their chemical counterparts in biodegradability and effectiveness at extreme temperature or pH and in having lower toxicity.
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Recent Advances in Petroleum Microbiology
TL;DR: The physiological responses of microorganisms to the presence of hydrocarbons, including cell surface alterations and adaptive mechanisms for uptake and efflux of these substrates, have been characterized and used to investigate the dynamics of microbial communities in petroleum-impacted ecosystems.